History YMMV / LatiasJourney

** [[spoiler:[[{{Transformers}} Rocktimus]] [[ThePowerOfRock Prime]] - The [[HumongousMecha giant mech]] used by the Pokerockers.]]

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: As the Reviews page shows, many former fans are liable to have a "Why did I think this was good back then?" moment when they re-read it to see how many flaws this story is rife with.

* IdiotPlot: A major problem with the story for the story's critics. A lot of the characters, even the '''legendary Pokemon''', have a bit of a death grip on the IdiotBall. And it's not just the heroes either.
** The Tyranitron arc heavily relies on almost every character ([[SmartBall except Wobbuffet]]) being stupid or distracted. Ash and his friends sit around and waste a lot of time gossiping when they should have been trying to think of ways to get around the Tyranitron's defenses. Whenever they come up with something, they're either shot down by ContrivedCoincidence (a random Murkrow [[DiabolusExMachina coming out of nowhere]] and stealing the Dragon Flute), or they wind up wasting even more time (Max insisting that he wants to pilot Jirachi's HumongousMecha form, and having to stop and read the owner's manual). On the villains' side, Team Rocket sits around and toys with their opponents instead of defeating them as quickly as possible, allowing Wobbuffet to turn off the Tyranitron's shields, and eventually, its engines. Their failure to get Chimecho out of the bridge ultimately causes their defeat.

* CriticalResearchFailure:
** Rock-types are NOT immune to electricity. Pikachu could have easily taken both of Latias Sr.'s Pokemon.
** During Crawdaunt's orgy in Chapter 50, Crawdaunt is described as "proud and joyful and omnipresent as any old saturnine god of sex." The author probably meant to say "jovial," because "saturnine" means "sluggish and gloomy."
** Reptiles are given placental mammal physiology, probably thanks to MostWritersAreHuman. Charla's developing eggs are measured in trimesters, and she goes through a ScreamingBirth, like a human. Meanwhile, the Latii are described as [[AllPeriodsArePMS getting PMS]] and going into heat, as if bird-like dragons can have estrous cycles.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: As the Reviews page shows, many former fans are liable to have a "Why did I think this was good back then?" moment when they re-read it to see [[{{Filler}} how]] [[GratuitousRape many]] [[WhatAnIdiot flaws]] this story is rife with.

* ShockingSwerve: In the final chapter it's revealed that [[spoiler:Mewgle had trapped everyone - and we do mean EVERYONE - in virtual reality so he could take over the multiverse. It winds up {{Retcon}}ning generally a lot of things.]] Some readers found that it [[AuthorsSavingThrow gave more closure to the story]], while others thought that [[AssPull it made everything worse]], and that the author should have left it alone.

* {{Fanon}}: The story uses a lot of popular anime series fanon including:
** The human characters' last names ("Brock Slate" and "Max and May Maple")
** Ash's Butterfree dying after he mated
** Silver and his parent being related to the Lugia from ''Anime/Pokemon2000''

* ShippingBedDeath: Refreshingly averted. Ash and Misty hook up quite early on, and their [[HappilyMarried ongoing relationship]] is handled as a an integral part of everything happening around them.

* WhatAnIdiot:
** The Ghost King wants to apologize to Latias for destroying her city, killing all her friends, and ultimately traumatizing her.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' He'd do everything Pokemonly possible not to dig himself a deeper hole. Wait for her to calm down before sending someone to speak on his behalf, since he can't leave the Realm of Mists. And maybe send a messenger who's not a Ghost-type. Also, drop the bounty on Ash's head, because killing him would just piss her off even more.\\
'''Instead:''' He sends Shedinja, ''the very Pokemon who killed Latias' best friend,'' to hunt her down with a squadron of ghosts and capture her. Oh, and Shedinja is also a {{Jerkass}}, and would rather terrorize her for several days instead of just bringing her right to the King.\\
'''Then:''' Once the King gets to speak to Latias when she has Mewtwo as her bodyguard, he tells her right to her face that he's going to kill Ash anyway, [[HonorBeforeReason because he never breaks his promises]].
** Fearow's gimmick is that he eats other Pokemon and gets stronger from it.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' He'd eat Latias ''immediately'', because she's a legendary Pokemon.\\
'''Instead:''' He tries to [[GratuitousRape rape her for no reason]], which delays him long enough for Pidgeot to rescue her.\\
'''Then:''' He is later killed by Latias' NewPowersAsThePlotDemands - powers that could have been his, had he not screwed around.
** The apocalypse had started. [[spoiler:Deoxys']] lands his fortress in the middle of Ever Grande City after destroying everything outside said city. The Chosen have assembled...and then AlphaBitch Lady Ho-Oh shows up, already ranting.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Ignore her bullshit, she's small potatoes compared to the SatanicArchetype staring them in the face. If she can't be ignored, lock her up somewhere so she can't get in the way.\\
'''Instead:''' Our heroes dogpile on her, and Sadic threatens to eat her. She escapes.\\
'''Then:''' Lady Ho-Oh immediately joins forces with [[spoiler:Deoxys]], and interrupts Lord Ho-Oh's battle with Leviathan. As a result, Misdreavus gets eaten thanks to being distracted, and Lord Ho-Oh gets dragged into Dark Latios' realm where he is tortured, mutilated, and killed.

** May. First she gets OvershadowedByAwesome and ditched when Ash has to go solo at the beginning. Her crush on him goes [[UnrequitedLove unrequited]] [[note]](we later find her first crush was too -- he was actually going out with another guy!)[[/note]] Then she gets [[CurbstompBattle curbstomped]] and [[BreakThemByTalking insulted]] by a godmodding HumanoidAbomination. [[spoiler:And when the grand finale kicks in, her Munchlax is shot, Drew's [[YourHeadASplode head explodes in her face]] right as she's realizing her feelings for him, and copies of her parents are killed on public TV. Once she gets an EleventhHourSuperpower with the rest of the cast, [[KansasCityShuffle she's tricked into killing her ''real'' parents thinking ''they're'' demonic fakes]], is ostracized by her brother for it, and her Pokemon and eventually herself are slaughtered by [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Dark Latias]] in quite possibly one of the most brutal fatalities of the book.]] ''Holy shit.''

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Besides the sheer amount of over-the-top violence, graphic torture, and GratuitousRape scenes at the hands of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s whose only redeeming feature is that they're shamelessly honest about [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming liking to do all three of those]], all the crap that our heroes get put through makes it difficult to sympathize with them. This wasn't already difficult enough to do so, no thanks to them being {{Wangst}}y (Latias, May long before anything terrible happens to her), preachy (Sadic and '''Mewtwo'''), pervy (Crawdaunt and Brock), stupid (Jirachi, Max, Phanphy, Misty's Psyduck/Golduck, May's Skitty/Delcatty), or downright villainous (The Ghost King, Molly). Then there is Latias' relationship with the Ghost King, which completely destroys all hope of the main heroine being seen as sympathetic. And there's [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Ri2's refusal to]] [[ShowDontTell show and not tell]]. The ending tried to do away with this, but then there was that SequelHook...

** May. First she gets OvershadowedByAwesome and ditched when Ash has to go solo at the beginning. Her crush on him goes [[UnrequitedLove unrequited]] [[note]](we later find her first crush was too -- he was actually going out with another guy!)[[/note]] Then she gets [[CurbstompBattle curbstomped]] and [[BreakThemByTalking insulted]] by a godmoder. [[spoiler:And when the grand finale kicks in, her Munchlax is shot, Drew's [[YourHeadASplode head explodes in her face]] right as she's realizing her feelings for him, and copies of her parents are killed on public TV. Once she gets an EleventhHourSuperpower with the rest of the cast, [[KansasCityShuffle she's tricked into killing her ''real'' parents thinking ''they're'' demonic fakes]], is ostracized by her brother for it, and her Pokemon and eventually herself are slaughtered by [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Dark Latias]] in quite possibly one of the most brutal fatalities of the book.]] ''Holy shit.''

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: The cast is invited to a ball before the final round of the Pokemon Tournament. Some of them go for more...[[PreClimaxClimax involved]] celebrations than others. After drinking copious amounts of punch, [[ChildrenAreInnocent Phanpy]] goes into the bathroom, only to walk in on [[ItMakesSenseInContext Uncle Brother]] Pikachu going at it with Sadic. Traumatized, he runs to Aunt Corsola for help, and walks in on ''her'' right in the middle of [[LovableSexManiac Crawdaunt's]] ''massive orgy''. You can [[HarmfulToMinors probably]] [[BlankWhiteEyes imagine]] [[HeroicBSOD what]] [[TraumaInducedAmnesia happens next]].
* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Besides the sheer amount of over-the-top violence, graphic torture, and GratuitousRape scenes at the hands of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s whose only redeeming feature is that they're shamelessly honest about [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming liking to do all three of those]], all the crap that our heroes get put through makes it difficult to sympathize with them. This wasn't already difficult enough to do so, no thanks to them being {{Wangst}}y (Latias, May long before anything terrible happens to her), preachy (Sadic and '''Mewtwo'''), pervy (Crawdaunt and Brock), stupid (Jirachi, Max, Phanphy, Misty's Psyduck/Golduck, May's Skitty/Delcatty), or downright villainous (The Ghost King, Molly). Then there is Latias' relationship with the Ghost King, which completely destroys all hope of the main heroine being seen as sympathetic. And there's [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Ri2's refusal to]] [[ShowDontTell show and not tell]]. The ending tried to do away with this, but then there was that SequelHook...

** Silver and his parent being related to the Lugia from ''Anime/{{Pokemon2000}}''

** May. First she gets OvershadowedByAwesome and ditched when Ash has to go solo at the beginning. Her crush on him goes [[UnrequitedLove unrequited]] [[note]](we later find her first crush was too -- he was actually going out with another guy!)[[/note]] Then she gets [[CurbstompBattle curbstomped]] and [[BreakThemByTalking insulted]] by a godmoding MarySue. [[spoiler:And when the grand finale kicks in, her Munchlax is shot, Drew's [[YourHeadASplode head explodes in her face]] right as she's realizing her feelings for him, and copies of her parents are killed on public TV. Once she gets an EleventhHourSuperpower with the rest of the cast, [[KansasCityShuffle she's tricked into killing her ''real'' parents thinking ''they're'' demonic fakes]], is ostracized by her brother for it, and her Pokemon and eventually herself are slaughtered by [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Dark Latias]] in quite possibly one of the most brutal fatalities of the book.]] ''Holy shit.''

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: As the Reviews page shows, many former fans are liable to have a [[HypeBacklash "Why did I think this was good back then?"]] moment when they re-read it to see [[{{Filler}} how]] [[GratuitousRape many]] [[WhatAnIdiot flaws]] this story is rife with.

** There's also a {{God}} of the Pokemon universe. ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl'' would gives us Arceus, who was implemented in this fic's sequel.

* ShippingBedDeath:
** Refreshingly averted. Ash and Misty hook up quite early on, and their [[HappilyMarried ongoing relationship]] is handled as a an integral part of everything happening around them.
** The same cannot be said for other couples. Misty's Psyduck/Golduck, who hooked up with May's Skitty/Delcatty before the Pokemon Tournament, gets killed by the Alpha Ranger. Gary's Misdreavus, who was with Umbreon from the beginning of the fanfic, gets eaten by Leviathan. The wild Misdreavus, who had a crush on Shedinja, gets killed by Shalor.

** The relationship between Latias and [[spoiler:the Ghost King, and by extension, Rayquaza]] is the most disliked aspect of the story. From the very beginning, Latias [[spoiler:has been dreaming about marrying the Ghost King, even though she didn't even know what he looked like. Later on, she forgives the him for razing her hometown and murdering everyone in it in a childish fit of rage, all because because a hologram of Latios said they should get together. She obeys it without question, the reason given that she "just knew" the hologram was the real Latios. At the same time, the Ghost King shows no real remorse over destroying Alto Mare nor killing everyone in it; the only reason he regrets doing it is because it upset Latias. To add insult to injury, their love for one another is mostly [[ShowDontTell told and not shown]] and Latias even marries the damn guy end of the story!]] Many readers were not at all satisfied with the story's explanation [[spoiler:and especially not the tacked-on revelation that Kyogre secretly made the Ghost King do it at the very end]], and consider it little more than glorified StockholmSyndrome.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Many former fans are liable to have a [[HypeBacklash "Why did I think this was good back then?"]] moment when they re-read it to see [[{{Filler}} how]] [[GratuitousRape many]] [[WhatAnIdiot flaws]] this story is rife with.

** And according to [[http://www.projectafterforums.com/index.php?showtopic=3327 Project AFTER]], it's an absolute trainwreck because of it.

* JustForFun/XMeetsY:
** ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': The ExploitationFilm
** The last arc is ''Pokemon'' meets ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' meets ''Film/EventHorizon''.
** In-universe example. The Battle Palace's rules are amended for the Hoenn League Championships so the roles are reversed. The end result is something like mixed martial arts meets Pokémon battling.
--->'''Ford''': Instead of Pokemon competing against Pokemon, it will be human against ''human'', with their Pokemon giving them commands from the sidelines!

* LoveItOrHateIt: You either love it because of the epic fight sequences, and "acts of unbelievable badassitude"...or you think it's the ''Agony in Pink'' of the Pokemon fandom.
** [[TakeAThirdOption Or]], if you loved it at first, you would have a [[HypeBacklash "Why did I think this was good back then?"]] moment when you re-read it to see [[{{Filler}} how]] [[GratuitousRape many]] [[WhatAnIdiot flaws]] this story was rife with.

* IdiotPlot: A major problem with the story for the story's critics. A lot of the characters, even the '''legendary pokemon''', have a bit of a death grip on the IdiotBall. And it's not just the heroes either.

** Deoxys crosses this when he destroys an entire city, personally striking down the Pichu Brothers.

** Mariah tries to destroy May's will during their battle curb-stomping and nearly killing her Pokemon, and insulting her every time. After May has been sufficiently traumatized, she tries to steal her soul.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Besides the sheer amount of over-the-top violence, graphic torture, and GratuitousRape scenes at the hands of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s whose only redeeming feature is that they're shamelessly honest about [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming liking to do all three of those]], all the crap that our heroes get put through makes it difficult to sympathize with them. This wasn't already difficult enough to do so, no thanks to them being {{Wangst}}y (Latias, May long before anything terrible happens to her), preachy (Sadic and '''Mewtwo'''), pervy (Crawdaunt and Brock), stupid (Jirachi, Max, Phanphy, Misty's Psyduck/Golduck, May's Skitty/Delcatty), or downright villainous (The Ghost King, Molly). Then there is Latias' relationship with the Ghost King, which completely destroys all hope of the main heroine being seen as sympathetic. And there's [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Ri2's refusal to]] [[ShowDontTell show and not tell]]. Fortunately, the ending does away with this.

* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler:[[BigBad Deoxys's]]]] [[EstablishingCharacterMoment first action]] after coming to Earth is murdering and [[ColdBloodedTorture torturing]] a small Pokémon [[WouldHurtAChild child]] after his twin was just murdered before his eyes. Over the course of the story, he [[CardCarryingVillain gleefully]] maims, murders, slaughters, mutilates, {{Mind Rape}}s, and does everything in his power to make the heroes' lives a literal living hell. He nukes several heavily populated areas around the world with his virus to acquire more mindless minions for [[OmnicidalManiac his goal]] (and every single one of his minions is in agonizing pain every second they're existing) and will do everything and anything to punish those who get in his way. When questioned why he does all of his atrocious acts, he replies thusly:
-->Because it is my wish. Because they were in my way. And most importantly, because I can.

** In general, most of the pairings in this fic, [[PairTheSpares especially the ones involving the supporting characters]], pop right out of nowhere and contribute little, if anything, to the story. For example, Psyduck and Skitty fall in LoveAtFirstSight, and Lombre and Midkip just up and announce to Brock that they're seeing each other out of the blue.

--> ''Latias' Journey'' is ''{{Pokemon}}'' tripping balls on every hallucinogen known. On meth. And PCP. And Rare Candies. While huffing nitrous oxide. And off its mood stabilizers.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Besides the sheer amount of over-the-top violence, graphic torture, and GratuitousRape scenes at the hands of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s whose only redeeming feature is that they're shamelessly honest about [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming liking to do all three of those]], all the crap that our heroes get put through makes it difficult to sympathize with them. This wasn't already difficult enough to do so, no thanks to them being {{Wangst}}y (Latias, May long before anything terrible happens to her), preachy (Sadic and '''Mewtwo'''), pervy (Crawdaunt and Brock), stupid (Jirachi, Max, Phanphy, Misty's Psyduck/Golduck, May's Skitty/Delcatty), or downright villainous (The Ghost King, Molly). Then there is Latias' relationship with the Ghost King, which completely destroys all hope of the main heroine being seen as sympathetic. And there's [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Ri2's refusal to]] [[ShowDontTell show and not tell]].

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Besides the sheer amount of over-the-top violence, graphic torture, and GratuitousRape scenes at the hands of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s whose only redeeming feature is that they're shamelessly honest about [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming liking to do all three of those]], all the crap that our heroes get put through makes it difficult to sympathize with them. This wasn't already difficult enough to do so, no thanks to them being {{Wangst}}y (mostly Latias, but May is no stranger to it, either, even before anything terrible happens to her), preachy (Sadic and '''Mewtwo'''), or {{Jerkass}}y (Crawdaunt and Brock). Then there is Latias' relationship with the Ghost King, which completely destroys all hope of the main heroine being seen as sympathetic. And there's [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Ri2's refusal to]] [[ShowDontTell show and not tell]].

** Butterfree dying after he mated

** The final arc has [[ColdBloodedTorture no]] [[{{Gorn}} short]] [[CruelAndUnusualDeath supply]] of this.